SPWeb.getFile(Url) exception : value does not fall within the expected range

Question

I suffer from a problem of

value does not fall within the expected range

from below code.

         string webUrl = "/_layouts/15/wfcourrierdep/ArticlesList.aspx";
                string fullpath = SPUtility.GetFullUrl(SPContext.Current.Site,   
                webUrl);

        SPFile file = web.GetFile(fullpath);

What can the cause be?

Answer 1

It could be a problem of SPUtility.GetFullUrl not being able to work with layouts URLs (since they are shared between all sites in your farm, and not site specific)

Try if

string fullPath=SPUtility.ConcatUrls(SPContext.Current.Site.Url, webUrl)

works better.

Don't really now why you are trying to get a file from the virtual directory layouts though! Check for example here of how to read from this directory: How to read a file from a folder in _Layouts?

If possible, you should consider to deploy the file into a library in SharePoint instead. That way you could do CRUD on it just like any other file in SharePoint